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title: To this the king agreed, and Wali Dâd sent the merchant to Nekabad,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To this the king agreed, and Wali Dâd sent the merchant to Nekabad, with a number of attendants, and with such handsome presents that the prince came at once, fell head over ears in love with the princess, and married her at Wali Dâd’s palace amidst a fresh outburst of rejoicings. Who acts: king, Wa
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 34

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To this the king agreed, and Wali Dâd sent the merchant to Nekabad, with a number of attendants, and with such handsome presents that the prince came at once, fell head over ears in love with the princess, and married her at Wali Dâd’s palace amidst a fresh outburst of rejoicings.

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**Who acts:** king, Wali, prince · **What happens:** agree, send, come, fall, marry · **To what, where:** merchant, Nekabad, head, ears, palace

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Wali, prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:35:34
# text = To this the king agreed, and Wali Dâd sent the merchant to Nekabad, with a number of attendants, and with such handsome presents that the prince came at once, fell head over ears in love with the princess, and married her at Wali Dâd’s palace amidst a fresh outburst of rejoicings.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	Wali	Wali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Nekabad	Nekabad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
35	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	over	over	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
46	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	Wali	Wali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod:poss	_	_
49	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	’s	's	PART	POS	_	48	case	_	_
51	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
52	amidst	amidst	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	outburst	outburst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the king |  |  |  |  | to this | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **send** | past | Wali | the merchant | Nekabad |  |  | with a number of attendants | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent merchant=Theme to nekabad=Destination |
| 3 | **come** | past | the prince |  |  |  |  | with such handsome presents | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 4 | **fall** | past | the prince *not said here* | head |  | ears |  | in love; with the princess | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient head=Result |
| 5 | **marry** | past | the king *not said here* | merchant |  | Wali's palace amidst a fresh outburst of rejoicings |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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